I suspect disney and such will be quite disappointed if they think they are going to get a 6000x speedup in practical use as hinted at in the articles. Perhaps a 10% speedup for joe blow on a dialup modem, _maybe_.
i don't think the author meant that to mean that this implimentation of tcp would give joe user a 6000x speed increase, rather they were attempting to give new scientist readers an idea of how fast 8.6 GB/s is. just chose poor wording.
unfortunately, looks like a good number of slashdotters misinterpreted this. If/.ers can, joe users probably will, too. "video on demand? that must mean 'to my desktop'!"
I actually didn't see any indication that your average joe would ever see this at all, at least not for quite some time. The article mentioned internet2, but that's got quite a while to go before joe can access it from your local ISP over a dial-up connection, if ever.
And as this project is centered on providing faster transport over really really fat pipe to facilitate "collaboration in physics and other fields," i doubt we'll be seeing this outside of university environments.
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i don't think the author meant that to mean that this implimentation of tcp would give joe user a 6000x speed increase, rather they were attempting to give new scientist readers an idea of how fast 8.6 GB/s is. just chose poor wording.
unfortunately, looks like a good number of slashdotters misinterpreted this. If /.ers can, joe users probably will, too. "video on demand? that must mean 'to my desktop'!"
I actually didn't see any indication that your average joe would ever see this at all, at least not for quite some time. The article mentioned internet2, but that's got quite a while to go before joe can access it from your local ISP over a dial-up connection, if ever.
And as this project is centered on providing faster transport over really really fat pipe to facilitate "collaboration in physics and other fields," i doubt we'll be seeing this outside of university environments.